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verbena

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Verbena  \Ver*be"na\,  n.  [L.  See  {Vervain}.]  (Bot.) 
  A  genus  of  herbaceous  plants  of  which  several  species  are 
  extensively  cultivated  for  the  great  beauty  of  their  flowers; 
  vervain. 
 
  Note:  Verbena,  or  vervain,  was  used  by  the  Greeks,  the 
  Romans,  and  the  Druids,  in  their  sacred  rites. 
  --Brewer. 
 
  {Essence  of  verbena},  {Oil  of  verbena},  a  perfume  prepared 
  from  the  lemon  verbena;  also  a  similar  perfume  properly 
  called  {grass  oil}.  See  {Grass  oil},  under  {Grass}. 
 
  {Lemon},  or  {Sweet},  {verbena},  a  shrubby  verbenaceous  plant 
  ({Lippia  citriodora}),  with  narrow  leaves  which  exhale  a 
  pleasant,  lemonlike  fragrance  when  crushed. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  verbena 
  n  :  any  of  numerous  tropical  or  subtropical  American  plants  of 
  the  genus  Verbena  grown  for  their  showy  spikes  of 
  variously  colored  flowers  [syn:  {vervain}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Verbena,  AL 
  Zip  code(s):  36091




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